Growing Fennel, also Bronze fennel

(foeniculum vulgare)

Easy to grow. Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed.
Best planted at soil temperatures between 50°F and 77°F.
(Show °C/cm)

Space plants: Thin to 12 inches

Harvest in 14-15 weeks.

Compatible with (can grow beside): Best grown away from vegetables

Bronze fennel

A tall plant with feathery looking leaves. The whole plant has an aniseed flavour, including the seeds.
Choose a place in the garden where it can self seed without causing too much trouble and there will be seedlings every year.

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Just read about fennel which I have recently grown (from a potted plant) and enjoyed eating. Surprised that under "culinary" you don't mention baking, steaming or raw in salads or with fish. However, what your site doesn't tell me is what to do once you have harvested the bulbs. I cut the plant right back and it has regrown, shooting up tall ungainly stems that look weird (almost as if bulbs are trying to grow on the stems) and then the stem divides. The base doesn't look like promising bulbs. Can you help? I'm in metro Adelaide. Thanks.

- Mike Windows

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